Companies expend significant financial resources on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to enhance their image. This study had two objectives. By drawing three fundamental consumer values as moderators, the first aim was discover how a company’s CSR engagement influences consumer–company identification (CCI) and consumers’ purchase intention for its products services. The second un...

Previous research into enforcement of law and corporate social responsibility mostly assumes that the vertical structure of the entities causing harm is exogenous. By outsourcing, the source of harm may avoid some liability and responsibility, while losing direct control over the evasive actions that cause harm. Here, we analyze the trade off between avoidance of liability and control over evas...

INTRODUCTION Moral desires are embodied in markets. This article analyzes the implications for corporate governance of the existence of morality within consumer and capital markets. Analysis of the role of moral desires within markets represents a new way of looking at the long-standing debate concerning the social responsibility of corporations. The focus of this article is normative, that is,...